Platinum Seat Leon FR TDI - 4 Day Mega Detail - 35 hours

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mk1 Platinum Seat Leon FR TDI – The FullWerkes Paint Correction Detail

With my new detailing cave ready, I decided to get my car in there and see what I could achieve in nice working conditions. I think I got a little carried away and turned into something a little comprehensive.

Here are the products I used.

Products
Wash n Drying
Dodo Juice Supernatural [body work and wheels]
Meguairs All Purpose Cleaner [Plastics and Rubbers]
AutoSmart G101 [interior + wheels + Engine]
Valet Pro Snowfoam [body]
PB Super Plush Drying Towel [body]
Wolfs Chemicals De-ironiser [wheels and body]
Chemical Guys + Eurow microfibres [body]

Body Work
Elite Car Care fine polyclay [body]
AutoSmart ReGlaze [Body + anything else]
AutoSmart Tardis Tar and Glue Remover [body and wheels]
Menzerna Intensive Polish (PO 3.02) [spot defect correction]
AutoFinesse Rejuvenate [body and hard to reach areas]

Sealants and Waxes
AutoGlym HD Wax [LSP]
AutoFinesse Tripple [door shuts]
Dodo Juice Need for Speed [engine]
Werkstat Prime [Wheels + headlights + glass]
CarLack Pure Sealant [Wheels]

Plastics, Rubbers and Glass
Megs Tyre Endurance Gel [tyres]
3M Glass Cleaner [glass exterior]
AutoBrite Crystal [glass interior and exterior]
AutoBrite Repel [windscreen]
3M Leather and Vynil Restorer [Interior]
WD40 [plastics and rubbers]
AutoSmart Finish [Plastics + engine parts]

Tools
Dodo Juice Spin Doctor rotary
Karcher pressure washer
CYC Foam Lance
Various foam applicators
EliteCarCare Sonus polishing pad + lake country spot pads.
Swissvax Detail Brush
EZ Detail Wheel Brush
3M 3434 Masking Tape


I made a slide show video (it’s my first one) for those who want to have a bit of music with the pictures. *Not all pictures are included in the vid*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxFCw5aFeSE&fmt=22

 

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Body and wheel decontamination

- Body and wheels soaked with Wolf’s Chemicals Deironiser
- Arch liners sprayed with CG Orange Degreaser and then agitated with Autosmart G101
- Wolf’s deironiser jet washed from alloys and then cleaned with Bilberry wheel cleaner and G101
- Engine degreased with Autoglym Engine Cleaner, agitated and jet washed. It was then sprayed with AutoSmart Finish and left to dry on for 10 minutes.

 

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By this time the Wolf’s DeIroniser was really working well and was causing some bleeding on the front arches / door.

Car was then foamed with ValetPro Snow foam and washed with Dodo Juice Supernatural. Dried with a PB Plush Drying Towel.

 

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Inspection of bodywork

Here is what the bodywork was like prior to claying. I was pretty pleased that virtually swirl free after 9 months since she was last machined polished.

The bonnet and roof were the worst in terms of defects.

 

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Claying

Bodywork was clayed with EliteCarCare fine poly clay. Windows were also clayed. Body was then sprayed with Autosmart Reglaze and dried with a microfiber. Windows came out very clean, amazing what claying them does.

Correction Stage

Paint readings were taken all over the car. No areas of concern and very healthy paint readings all round. As some of you may know I been buying fair few products to add to the collection and recently purchased a few AutoFinesse products. I have seen some really good results from a few users on DW so decided to see how AutoFinesse Rejuvenate really was.

 

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Bonnet

Before – in this picture see the type of defects present

After – defects taken out.

Before – middle of bonnet

After

After – bonnet far right

There were still some defects left that really needed more attention. This was done later in the detail with a polishing pad and Menz IP.

The performance of Rejuvenate was excellent and in many ways works better than Lime Prime.

+ Goes on very easily and can be worked in quite quickly.
+ A little goes a long way
+ Very easy to buff off. Much easier than lime prime
- Product tends to sling a lot. Wish it was a tad thicker

Right arch & door corrected

 

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Before

After

This picture is the roof after one hit of Rejuvenate. Required a second hit and higher RPM (1500) to get enough cut to get rid of the deeper RDS.

Before

After

 

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Some areas needed some special attention to get rid of some scratches.

Wing mirrors responded well to Rejuvenate

Before – dull

After – more flake pop and cleaner reflection of light.

Nasty scratch on front light, no idea how that got there but I wasn’t pleased. Luckily I managed to get majority of it out with some Menz IP.

Before

After

I compounded the bonnet again as I tried various combinations of light to try and identify all the RDS on there. I picked Menz IP and a EliteCareCare heavy polishing pad to good affect but it produced a bit of dusting.

 

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Cleansing continued

Driver and passenger windows were treated with Werkstat Prime.

Door shuts were cleaned with AutoSmart Reglaze.

 

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Before

After

I also managed to clean the plastic behind with great difficulty.

This now gave me the opportunity to use AutoFinesse Tripple. This is an amazing all in one cleaner! I am so so impressed with it and the best thing apart from its cleaning/protection capabilities is you can smell its cleaning power. If I was a druggy I would be high on this stuff lol!

 

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I also gave the bumper a good clean and the cold air feeds. Amazing how much crap built up around the plastic mesh. This was tackled with G101 but not after pictures.

Plastic and rubbers where given a good wipe with WD40. Works very well and leaves a nice finish. They were treated with AS Finish later.

Boot shuts were treated with AutoFinesse Tripple also. The plastic was cleaned with WD40 also but no afters I am afraid.

 

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Day 2

On the second day I decided to take some pictures of what the car looked like.

I started to inspect the paintwork more carefully to ensure that the finish was as flawless as possible. Some spot correction was done on defects that caught my eye.

Menz IP doing it’s thing!

I decided to give the tyres another clean with Megs APC to ensure good bonding with Megs Endurance gel.

 

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Wheels were treated with Werkstat Prime as its got amazing cleaning solvents and adds protection too.

Glass was treated with AutoBrite twins. Repel needs two three applications on untreated glass to get longevity.

 

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Whilst I was waiting for AutoBrite Repel to cure I started on the interior.

The Flash caught some particles that where quickly vacced up.

 

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Before

After

Carpet was vacced again later and edges of footrest cleaned.

 

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ALL of a sudden a massive shadow went past me. I thought it was a bird (big enough to be!) but it was a huge moth animal thing.

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After

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After

Car matts where cleaned with Autosmart G101. Doesn’t product as much foam as Megs APC but cleans very well.

Plastics treated with AS Finish.

 

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Again this areas was vacced and cleaned again to get rid of the stubborn particles.

Interior windscreen was Crystalised.

 

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Day 3 & 4

Day three I was pretty tired however the end was in site. Wheels looked especially clean so took some random pictures of these.

Rear glass wasn’t treated with Werkstat as I planned to add some AutoBrite Repel. Gave it a good clean beforehand and then applied AutoBrite Repel.

Repel curing; it hazes up when worked in lightly. You have to leave this for at least 15 minutes.

Whilst cleaning the rear window I was horrified to see a scratch I didn’t notice before.

Before

After

 

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LSP

Wax of choice was Autoglym HD wax. I still have the second coat to put on which I will do Friday morning.